The Wrong Side of the War
Blu-Ray won. HD-DVD threw in the towel months ago. Even consumers who don't normally pay a lot of attention to home theater technology have probably noticed that HD-DVDs have disappeared from store shelves and have been replaced by Blu-Ray sections twice their previous size. The HD-DVD seems now destined to go the way of Betamax, Laserdisc, and other formats which never really hit their stride.
But what if you have a collection of HD-DVDs at home? And what about all of those HD-DVDs that people can now purchase for half the price of a normal DVD? Don't worry. There are still plenty of ways to enjoy HD-DVD content even as the world transitions to Blu-Ray
Converting HD-DVDs to Blu-Ray
Unfortunately, trying to convert HD-DVDs to a Blu-Ray format in order to update your home library isn't the easiest thing in the world. That is not to say it is impossible, however. If you'd like to convert your HD-DVDs to Blu-Ray you'll first need to invest in a program that can rip an HD-DVD. There are two programs available right now, and both are fairly easy to use. The first is AnyDVD HD, and the second is DVDFab HD Decrypter. The big difference is that DVDFab HD Decrypter is shareware while AnyDVD costs about $90 dollars. As you might have guessed, you'll also need an HD-DVD drive on the computer that will be ripping the data.
Once the data is ripped, it should be in a .EVO format. What you need to do is to convert the files to a format which Blu-Ray uses. This is where things get messy. First you will need to use EVOdemux which is an EVO file Demultiplexer (don't ask). Next you will need either a program called Vc1conv (found about mid-way down the page) or H264Info. Which one you need depends on the HD-DVD, as Vc1 and H264 are designations for different ways of encoding an HD-DVD movie. If figuring out which you have seems hard, don't fret - you can obviously try programs and discover through trial and error which format you're encountering. You'll need to compress the audio because the single-layer Blu-Ray discs you're almost certainly going to be burning the movie onto will have less capacity then an HD-DVD. For that you use a program called Eac3to. Finally you'll want to use tsMuxeR and tsRemux to prepare the video streams which you have for burning onto a Blu-Ray disc.
Now that you've jumped through all of those hoops and wrangled with some programs that are less then user friendly you'll need a program that actually burns to a Blu-Ray disk. For that you will probably want to use a program like Nero 9, which is quite robust and will, unlike some of the above programs, be extremely easy to use. However, it will cost at least $69.99. And of course you'll need a Blu-Ray burner, which is going to set one back about $160.
Converting HD-DVD to Blu-Ray: Is it possible?
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